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Australian Legend Retires
After 8 years at the elite level Australia's double Paralympian discus thrower Sarah Edmiston has today announced her retirement from competitive athletics.
"Today I am officially announcing my retirement. Words cannot express the incredible journey and enjoyment athletics has given me. I am happy to say it will still be a part of my life going forward. I must thank those who have made this possible namely my amazing husband and coach Paul, my incredible family, the WA Institute of Sport, Athletics Australia, my super team mates, Perth Track and Field Club and my brilliant supporters. I am really looking forward to the next chapter in my life, spending more time with my family, enjoying my hobbies and coaching the next generation of superstars."
Her main achievements include the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Bronze, 2020 Dubai World Championship Silver, 2017 London World Championship Bronze & 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games Silver medals. Also the World number 1 ranking in 2018, 2020, 2021 & 2022.
Career Highlights: https://sprintingfast.com/sarah-edmiston/
Athletics Australia: https://www.athletics.com.au/news/sarah-edmiston-announces-retirement
Edmiston selected for Paris 2024
West Australian discus thrower Sarah Edmiston has been selected for her second Australian Paralympic team.
The Tokyo Paralympic bronze and double world championship medalist will compete in the F64/44 Women's discus throw on August 24th in Paris, France.
Double Gold Jones
U11 Southern Districts athlete Clementine Jones has won gold in the 100m & 200m at the 2025 WA Junior Athletics Championships.
State Record for Willow
Hammersley Little Athlete Willow Sloss has broken the U10 WA state record in the 70m sprint.
Blazing the distance in 10.10 seconds she slashed the previous mark set in 2023 by 0.04. She also won gold in the 60m hurdles and 200m sprint while taking home silver in the 70m and 100m at the 2024 WA Junior Athletics Championships.
Her brilliant season was rewarded with an amazing 12 trophies over the 2023/2024 season!
Golden Lily
University of WA Little athlete Lily Pratt has won triple GOLD at the WA 2024 athletics championships
The U9 speedster has taken victory in the 70m, 100m and long jump events. She also won the bronze medal in the 60m hurdles.
She has had an amazing season with incredible progressions in her training that has lead to great results. "Lily works very hard and has a lot of fun at training. There is no surprise that she has done so well this season" says coach Paul Edmiston.
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
70m - 12.00 📉 10.71
100m - 15.97 📉 15.12
200m - 35.40 📉 32.72
60mh - 12.31 📉 10.51
Plyometric exercises - 17.40m 📈 19.20m
Long Jump - 3.30m 📈 4.10m
WA Championships - 🥇🥇🥇🥉
Ruby turns into GOLD
U16 athlete Ruby MANOV has won two gold medals at the 2024 WA Athletics Championships in the 100m & 300m hurdles.
She also won the silver medal in the long jump
Related post: https://sprintingfast.com/manov-steel-sizzles/
Back to Back Silver for SIM
Sprinting Fast and Perth Track and Field Athlete Alana Sim has won back to back U20 silver medals in the 400m sprint at the WA Athletics Stadium
Related post: https://sprintingfast.com/alana-sim-wins-state-400m-silver-medal/
2024 WA Athletics Championships
WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING 👏
U9G 100m 🥇 Lily PRATT
U9G Long Jump 🥇 Lily PRATT
U9G 70m 🥇 Lily PRATT
U10G 60mh 🥇 Willow SLOSS
U10G 200m 🥇 Willow SLOSS
U12G 100m 🥇 Mina CHO (state record)
U17G 100mh 🥇 Ruby MANOV
U17G 300m 🥇 Ruby MANOV
Open Discus Para 🥇 Sarah EDMISTON
U10G 100m 🥈 Willow SLOSS
U10G 70m 🥈 Willow SLOSS (state record)
U13G 100m 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U13G 200m 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U13G Long Jump 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U14G 100m 🥈 Mina CHO
U14G 200m 🥈 Mina CHO
U12G 200m 🥈 Mina CHO
U12G 80mh 🥈 Lola VOGL
U15B 200mh 🥈 Campbell BANNISTER
U16B Javelin 🥈 Toby WOOD
U16B Shot Put 🥈 Toby WOOD
U17G Long Jump 🥈 Ruby MANOV
U20G 400m 🥈 Alana SIM
U9G 60mh 🥉 Lily PRATT
U9G Long Jump 🥉 Billy GREATBANKS
U14G 90mh 🥉 Ruby ZUCHETTI
U15B 100m 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
U15B 200m 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
U15B 100mh 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
Open 100mh 🥉 Talia PISANO
Well done also to our non medalists who had a fantastic season and made it through to the 2024 WA State Championships.
Manov Steel Sizzles
U16 athlete Ruby MANOV has broken two records at the Kingsway Little Athletics Centre in the 100m & 300m hurdles.
On January 13th she broke the 300m hurdles record at KLAC with a time of 47.83. Almost a whole second faster than the previous record of 48.69sec. Then two weeks later on January 27th she broke the 100m hurdles record with a personal best performance of 15.78 (the previous record was 16.48 set on 18/02/2023).
One week after that she set another personal best of 14.83 at the WA Athletics Stadium beating the Sprinting Fast record (which was 14.97 set on 17/12/2015 by Sarah Sunquist). That effort currently ranks her 6th in Australia for her age group. Later that evening she recorded her fastest ever 100m clocking a wind-aided 12.56 (+2.3).
Ruby only joined Sprinting Fast halfway through the 2023/24 season and has made some impressive improvements since.
Bella’s speed at new levels
U12/13 Perth Saints soccer player Isabella Di Prinzio has taken her speed to the next level with 11 weeks of sprint training.
"When Bella arrived she was doing some things incorrect with her sprinting. We had to change a few things to make her more economical and increase her speed" Says coach Edmiston. "Now she is moving much better and you can visually see the difference. She has improved more than half a second over 30m and more than one second over 60m. That's a lot and it will make a huge difference to her soccer games in many ways".
Isabella continues to work hard and do sprint training in her lead up to the coming 2024 soccer season.
30m / 60m
Week 1
5.58 / 11.02
5.51 / 10.93
5.48 / 10.89
5.39 / 10.64
5.21 / 10.43
5.13 / 10.33
5.11 / 10.19
5.15 / 10.25
5.13 / 10.20
5.08 / 9.97
4.98 / 10.16
Week 11
